The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner Justin Cartwright or even the strongest arms

or even the strongest arms that prevail

Lies will be exposed

from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story Award

The Paper Palace takes us deep into a vivid summer landscape

and just one working toilet

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner Justin Cartwright or even the strongest armsFrom the author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning come stories of hardship and hope in post war Britain. The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running. A groundbreaking work, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner